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    m17x R4 big problem! Please help!

    Discussion in 'Alienware 17 and M17x' started by mi3x, Aug 22, 2012.

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    Ok, so after 2 days of putting everything in order, installing games and apps, today I wanted to update the nVidia driver to the one posted on laptopvideo2go.

    I prepared everything, the driversweeper etc, now went to cpanel to uninstall the nvidia drivers, I uninstalled the update, then the main driver, but suddenly my screen went BLANK.

    The keyboard was still lit, I rebooted and found the same blank/black screen.
    I tried in safe mode (all 3 options), same, after loading drivers, it stops at the blank/black screen.

    I got into bios, but there is no option to disable video.

    What can I do guys? I don't want to reinstall everything from scratch... Please any ideas?

    LE: I solved it, it was the truecrypt preventing from booting. I unencrypted it and it booted fine.
     
    mi3x, Aug 22, 2012
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